“Have you heard about the Earthships?” “What?!” “The Earthships.  Right down the road…they’re houses built out in the desert, people living totally off the grid.  You should go see them.” How could I resist something that sounded so…um, alien?  I love the serendipity of travel, and how you just never know what you’ll see and [...]

“The decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson It seems like we are always striving for that “decisive moment” shot, where everything seems to come [...]

Isn’t Carnival in Rio?!  Not in a million years did I expect to experience it in a small seaside town in southern Portugal.  Yet here I was, following costumed children down the cobblestone streets of Tavira:  fairy princesses, flamenco dancers, pirates and clowns all coming out of every street and alley, funneling into the town [...]

Vernazza, a jewel on the Ligurian coastline, is a town in a scenic, somewhat isolated area of Italy:  Cinque Terre (Five Lands).  A string of 5 towns which dot the western coastline near Tuscany, charming Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage site and part of Cinque Terre National Park.  The rugged coastline makes it [...]

Day of the Dead, Día de los Muertos, All Souls’ Day… Several years ago I had the fortune to be in central Mexico right before Días de los Muertos, which is celebrated on November 1 (All Saints’ Day), when the souls of children are honored and November 2 (All Souls’ Day), when the adults are [...]

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